My Hastert right or wrong
My favorite line from the whole Foley incident to date has got to be this line from the reliably hacky Powerline Blog:
"As far as I can tell from the news stories I've read, there is no claim that Foley DID anything with any House page."
The neo-fascists parody themselves so adroitly now that it's almost impossible to come up with a punchline for this stuff anymore. Stupefying is the only word that comes to mind when I see Republican politicians and apologists redefine reality on a daily basis, with so little reaction for the public.
But here we are, watching the same righties who were ready and willing to lynch Bill Clinton for corrupting the body and soul of a woman-- no, a child!-- too young to know better now decide that prudence is the way to go until a photo surfaces of the Republican Congressman actually sodomizing an underage boy who happens to be holding a photo ID up to the lens. But if such a photo did turn up, you can bet the folks at Powerline would angrily write a series of posts about how it was a big frameup by covert Democratic (excuse me, 'Democrat') operatives. It isn't a mindset I'll ever understand, but it's the Republican base for the 21st century.
The article I'm linking to is a mildly amusing roundup of what right-wingers are saying about Hastert's role in the Foley incident. A few call for his resignation. Most are still silent or trying to find inventive ways to circle the wagons around the GOP. Second prize goes to Newt Gingrich for saying that "the actual notes were relatively innocuous." I sorta doubt we'd be seeing such breezy reactions from these oily bastards if, say, they caught a fifty-something man flirting with their teenage sons.
"As far as I can tell from the news stories I've read, there is no claim that Foley DID anything with any House page."
The neo-fascists parody themselves so adroitly now that it's almost impossible to come up with a punchline for this stuff anymore. Stupefying is the only word that comes to mind when I see Republican politicians and apologists redefine reality on a daily basis, with so little reaction for the public.
But here we are, watching the same righties who were ready and willing to lynch Bill Clinton for corrupting the body and soul of a woman-- no, a child!-- too young to know better now decide that prudence is the way to go until a photo surfaces of the Republican Congressman actually sodomizing an underage boy who happens to be holding a photo ID up to the lens. But if such a photo did turn up, you can bet the folks at Powerline would angrily write a series of posts about how it was a big frameup by covert Democratic (excuse me, 'Democrat') operatives. It isn't a mindset I'll ever understand, but it's the Republican base for the 21st century.
The article I'm linking to is a mildly amusing roundup of what right-wingers are saying about Hastert's role in the Foley incident. A few call for his resignation. Most are still silent or trying to find inventive ways to circle the wagons around the GOP. Second prize goes to Newt Gingrich for saying that "the actual notes were relatively innocuous." I sorta doubt we'd be seeing such breezy reactions from these oily bastards if, say, they caught a fifty-something man flirting with their teenage sons.
posted by Matt Sandwich | 11:24 AM
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